CORK AND ORRERY, MARY, COUNTESS OF (Mary Monckton) (1746-184o), was born on May 21, 1746, the daughter of the first Viscount Galway. Through her influence her mother's house in London became a favourite meeting-place of literary celebrities. Dr. Johnson was a frequent guest. Sheridan, Rey nolds, Burke and Horace Walpole were among her constant visi tors, and Mrs. Siddons was her closest friend. In 1786 she married the 7th earl of Cork and Orrery, who died in 1798. As Lady Cork she was an even more famous hostess. Among her regular guests were Canning and Castlereagh, Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, Theodore Hook and Sydney Smith. She is supposed to have been the original of Lady Bellair in Disraeli's Henrietta Temple, and Dickens is believed to have drawn on her for some of the peculiarities of Mrs. Leo Hunter in Pickwick. She died in London on May 3o, 184o.